Rapid changes: Sources of Social Problems

Everything that was just said can occur in any society, but in the modern industrial society its presence is on a massive scale; the world of today is crazy, and this is not normal for human societies. While there’s good reason to believe primitive man suffered less stress and frustration and was better satisfied with his way of life, it is also true that it was not all sweetness and light in primitive societies.

Abuse of women was common among the Australian Aborigines and trans-sexuality/vestite was fairly common among some of the Native tribes – worldwide.  But, generally speaking, were far less common among primitive people than they are today.

Abnormal conditions present in modern industrial society that cause stress and frustration include: density of population, isolation from nature, excessive rapidity of social changes and the breakdown of natural, small-scale communities such as the extended family; the village or the tribe.

Crowding increases stress and aggression and wanting more and more technological advancements, are the side effects we all live with.

There is an oxymoron in government; the “conservatists” who complain and whine about the decay of traditional values; yet, enthusiastically support technological progress and rapid economic growth.  Never once, do the obvious occur to these brilliant politicians. You can’t make rapid, drastic changes in any technology and the economy of a society, without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well.

Simply: Rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values. This then, implies the breakdown of the bonds that hold together traditional small-scale social groups.  The disintegration of small-scale social groups is also promoted by modern conditions that often require or tempt individuals to move to new locations, separating themselves from their communities.

Oh, and this then, has to weaken family ties and local communities, if it is to function efficiently. In modern society, individual loyalty must first be to the system and only second to a small-scale community. Why? If the internal loyalties of small-scale communities are stronger than loyalty to the system; it’s only logical, that pursuits of their own advantages would compromise the expense of the system.  So control over the communities has to be primary; socialism...read more in the book.

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